COMPACT, a tutorial Scott W. Williams State University of New York in Buffalo
title and preface	page 1: the beginnings	page 2: a special example
page3: functional separation	page4: the universe in a box	page5: open covers
References

the compact tutorial references

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Bolzano, B. Functionlehre, 1833-1841 (from Bolzano's manuscripts in Spisy B. Bolzana 1, Prague 1930.

Bolzano, B. Zahlenlehre, 1842 (from Bolzano's manuscripts in Spisy B. Bolzana 2, Prague 1931.

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Cech, E. (1937) On bicompact spaces, Annals of Math. 38, 823-844.

Fréchet, M. (1910) Les dimensions d'un ensemble abstrait, Math. Ann. 68, 145-168.

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Jarnik, V. (1981) Bolzano and the foundations of mathematical analysis, Society of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists.

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Williams, S. (1984), Box products, Handbook of Set-Theoretic Topology (K. Kunen and J.E.Vaughan ed.), North-Holland, 169-200.

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